Great! I really love my Vue the way it is - expect for the crashes...

Well, a lot of corporate mumbo-jumbo - but no clear words. Will both programms be fused into one programm? Will Vue d'Esprit get a direct interface to Amapi? In the first case, I would probably buy the update - in the latter case, I wouldn't buy Amapi. Hey, I own my own copy of 3D-Studio Max - why would I need Amapi? For once I would love to get clear words from Vue d'Esprit.

P.S. You can find the materials in Vue d'Esprit Freestuff.

LEt me speak for me and my freestuff: Use it as you see fit, don't sell it and give credit if you happen to remember that it is my freestuff. If you can't remember: No problem. Actually I can't understand this greed for credits, that is so common here on Renderosity. I am not doing my stuff to receive credit. When I am doing freestuff, I do so because I was asked by someone, who needed something or I do so, because I can use it myself - and hey: Why keep it for myself, if all I need to do is post it? But I have the distinct feeling, that some of us are in it for the fame. Please be realistic: With the amount of freestuff around, I can't expect people to remember the creators of every little peace of freestuff. I can't ask people to keep all those read-me's - unless I give them a new hard-disk just for that reason. It is nice to receive credit - but it is not that important. I am happy to see someone using something I created - but I really do not need to be praised for it. Joerg

While I am not exactly a starving artist, I am more of a starving soldier... And soldiers do not get credit-cards here in Germany. There's a lot of stuff I would like to have, but I can't buy it, because you need a credit-card. Great. What should I do? Post around asking for warez? Build yourself what you can't buy! Especially if you consider yourself an artist, you shouldn't put up with premade stuff.

ISn't this one of the standard Hairpieces of Poser 4? This one should already have an UV-Mapping. If not, send me the Object and I'll give it a try.

I am not such a big fan of the Guges. Call it a problem with my military background, but the Guges doesn't look like a military machine. Feet to small, hip armour (that's the part I would be aiming for as a sniper) to thin, legs to instable... I do prefer a more solid look. But I can't find a picture of the suit that I wanted to do on the net...

I would scan a picture, but at the moment, my manga-maddened brother has my Intron Depot. But I'll make a short search on the net, maybe I can find the suit I was referring to.

No problem... Take your time with the Blizzard stuff. I still have to do some props anyway... I think I will do an update to the old breathing-system as well as two new suits: One based loosely on the suits currently available and one I always wanted to do but never got to: A suit based on a hardsuit from Shirow Masamunes Intron Depot.

Well, you can thank the soviets for the skintights suits. While the americans experimented with standard-style eva-suits, the russians experimented with a different system, using several layers of rubber to compress the body. This would keep the body from taking vacuum-damage. Several layers of insulating material are added as well as a heating/cooling-layer, finalized with a higly reflective layer. The whole system is about a centimeter thick and works quite well for short periods of time. But the system was never perfected. Hm... but I wanted to do several different spacesuit-systems for Mike and Vicky anyway. Could as well do it now...

and I thought those birds were vegetarian...

Yup, helps a lot - that's all I needed to know. Thanks

hm... I was thinking about creating a set of winter-clothing for the MilKids. Does anyone know if the joint-parameters for the female kids are equal to the male kids?

Although I am still somewhat troubled by the german steelhelmet that guy is wearing... Nice model!

Windows 2000 on an AMD-System 1700 system with 1 Gig of Ram and an Elsa Gladiac 511 Graphics-Card. Oh, and I have to step back on Point 4) The volumetrics do show - but since I am always working with very large scaled landscapes, it doesn't really show. Still, I do get mightily strange results in some pictures and a bright rainbow-effect when I view the horizon through such a volumetric... Strange indeed.